Martin Weisser (Germ. Weißer) is a lecturer & researcher in English Language and Linguistics.

Curriculum vitae

Martin initially studied English & French at Würzburg University and obtained his MA in English Linguistics, English Literature & Galloroman Philology from there in 1994. In between, from October 1990 to March 1991, he held a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study at Sheffield University.
He began studying for his Ph.D. in Würzburg in 1994, but moved to Lancaster University in 1995, where he completed it in 2001. While in Lancaster, he participated in two projects related to dialogue annotation and taught courses in Linguistics, as well as for the Computer Centre there.
From January 2003 to September 2004, he worked in Computational Linguistics at Erlangen University and moved to Chemnitz in October 2004.

Research interests

His research areas are varied and include most aspects of spoken and written language, but in particular:

• Spoken Discourse & Dialogue
• Corpus/Computational Linguistics, Language Engineering, Computational Philology
• Linguistic & general text processing and encoding, including text processing in other character sets/Unicode and document structuring & encoding in XML, HTML
• Phonetics, mainly accents and dialects of English
• Creating dynamic web-based teaching materials that are suitable for both taught courses & self access
• Using corpora to raise language awareness in teaching EAP

Contact
Chemnitz, Reichenhainer Str. 39, room 221
Tel.: +49-371-531-34283
Fax: +49-371-531-834283
Email: martin.weisser@phil.tu-chemnitz.de
Office Hour: Monday, 2:30-3:30 pm